Other scientists can only build on our work to the extent that they know about it. That’s why we keep track of the occasions on which the London Institute and its research papers are written about in the mainstream and science press or mentioned in major blogs and podcasts.

Creativity10 Dec
The art of science
On the day of the Nobel awards, our writer Thomas Hodgkinson writes in The Critic about the common ground between the arts and the sciences.

Philanthropy7 Dec
The art of the Delo
Our trustee Ben Delo talks to The Sunday Telegraph’s James Titcomb about his journey from bitcoin billionaire to free speech philanthropist.

Artificial Intelligence16 Oct
Bubble trouble
In his Financial Times column on the AI boom, John Thornhill quotes our live interview with physicist and entrepreneur Stephen Wolfram.

Partnership12 Oct
A bridge with India
Nature India’s editor hails our Ramanujan Junior Researchers scheme, inspired by the friendship between Srinivasa Ramanujan and G.H. Hardy.

Science history29 Sep
Faraday’s masterclass
In The Oldie, our writer Thomas Hodgkinson celebrates the Royal Institution’s Friday Evening Discourses, the world’s oldest science talks.

Science history18 Sep
Friday night live
In the Idler, our writer Thomas Hodgkinson pays tribute to the Royal Institution’s Friday Evening Discourses, which turn 200 this year.

Artificial Intelligence11 Jun
A Fields Medal for AI?
The Financial Times features Prof. Yang-Hui He in a piece highlighting the potential impact of future AI models on academic mathematicians.

Philanthropy8 Jun
Rebel with a cause
Ben Delo talks to Thomas Hodgkinson in Perspective about beating Asperger’s, smoking the competition and why he likes the London Institute.

AI-assisted maths21 May
Talking murmurations
Prof. Yang-Hui He discusses AI breakthroughs in mathematics with podcaster Curt Jaimungal–including his work on the murmuration conjecture.

Science funding3 Apr
My passion for maths
In a piece in The Spectator, the entrepreneur and philanthropist Ben Delo explains why he is funding a Fellowship at the London Institute.

AI-assisted maths2 Jan
The AI mathematician
On the Theories of Everything podcast, Prof. Yang-Hui He explains how machine learning is helping to revolutionise mathematical discovery.

Russia & Ukraine1 Nov 2024
Re-ordering Russia
Mikhail Khodorkovsky talks to Thomas Hodgkinson in The Times about the future of Russia and why he funds research at the London Institute.

Org intelligence 29 Aug 2024
Spreading the word
In the Harvard Business Review, our trustee Martin Reeves and co-authors explain how ‘evolvable scripts’ greatly improve knowledge-sharing.

Science funding15 Aug 2024
Life of Riley
The Times' science editor interviews our Trustee, actress Talulah Riley, about her love of physics and her work with the London Institute.

Creativity13 Apr 2024
Talking is thinking
Talking engages robust muscles of thought—not least when mathematicians take their problems to the blackboard, argues Thomas Hodgkinson.

Materials21 Mar 2024
Roll over, Newton
A team of researchers has designed a robotic metamaterial that can create topological solitons, violating Newton’s third law of motion.

Materials20 Mar 2024
Making waves
A team including Oleksandr Gamayun has made the first mechanical metamaterial that transmits topological solitons in just one direction.

Creativity18 Mar 2024
Creative convergence
The advertising guru Graham Fink waxes lyrical about equations and working with the London Institute on the How Do You Feel Today? podcast.

Number theory5 Mar 2024
Elliptic curve mystery
Quanta reports on work by Yang-Hui He, who co-discovered unexpected patterns in a property related to the curves’ integer roots using AI.

Geometry29 Feb 2024
Geometry’s dominion
Following his popular Discourse, Yang-Hui He joins writer Madeleine Hall to talk about the mysteries of geometry on the Ri Science podcast.

Russia & Ukraine20 Feb 2024
Security and freedom
A Bloomberg piece names our Arnold & Landau Fellowships as one of the few programmes offering help to Russian and Ukrainian scientists.

Russia & Ukraine22 May 2023
The language of maths
A piece in The Times explains how, thanks to our Arnold and Landau Fellowships, theorists divided by war can find a common denominator.

Science history4 Apr 2023
What are the chances?
In The Spectator, our writer Madeleine Hall hails John Venn, who pioneered not only Venn diagrams but also frequentist probability.

Science history14 Mar 2023
The big bang
A century ago, in our rooms in Mayfair, Sir James Dewar died. Our writer Thomas Hodgkinson pays tribute to the inventor of cordite in Nautilus.

Evolvability11 Aug 2022
Price of immortality
In The Sunday Telegraph, our writer Thomas Hodgkinson highlights London Institute research suggesting ageing may be adaptive—and reversible.

AI-assisted maths6 Jun 2022
AI helps with maths
An AI that can turn mathematics problems written in English into a formal proving language could make them easier for other AIs to solve.

Evolvability1 May 2022
Death, be not proud
The Washington Post explains how man's mad search for immortality is getting serious in our cell programming collaboration with bit.bio.

Physics & maths12 Jun 2021
Challenging Times
In The Times, the paper's science editor Tom Whipple reports on the London Institute's list of the 23 Mathematical Challenges for our time.

Physics & maths17 Dec 2020
A singular mind
In an interview with Thomas Fink, Sir Roger Penrose talks about his Nobel Prize, the beauty of physics—and why AI is nothing to fear.

Cell coding13 Nov 2020
LIMS-bit.bio
Forbes explains how the London Institute, working with the biologists at bit.bio, may revolutionise our understanding of human life.

Cell coding27 Oct 2020
LIMS-bit.bio
The Times welcomes the collaboration between London Institute mathematicians and the biologists at bit.bio to crack cell reprogramming.

Cell coding22 Oct 2020
Maths, meet biology
Verdict reports on the collaboration between the London Institute and cell coding company bit.bio to decode the operating system of life.

Innovation24 Feb 2020
Taming complexity
Complexity may be hard to unpick, without being inherently bad. Ensure the benefits of any addition to company systems outweigh its costs.

Science funding30 Jan 2020
Taking back research
In today’s Science|Business, the London Institute welcomes the prospect of a UK DARPA and calls for shorter turn-around times for funding.

Physics & maths1 Apr 2019
Sage of discovery
British Airways’ inflight magazine runs a three-page profile of the London Institute, its founder and its new approach to doing science.

Thermodynamics31 Jul 2018
Slurry in a hurry
The 3D structures of slurries—fluids full of solid particles—can be swiftly measured using a single 2D shot and electron diffraction data.

Innovation25 Sep 2017
Yes you cayenne
In innovation, the most apparently niche ingredients may turn out to be the most useful, as the structures of recipes become more complex.

Financial risk5 Apr 2017
Fools rush in
Measures meant to stabilise economies may have the opposite effect, creating cyclical structures in the networks of contracts between banks.

Innovation6 Jan 2017
Harnessing Serendipity
Quirky and apparently mysterious, innovation is critical to sustained economic growth—and mathematics can help us understand how it works.

Network theory4 Oct 2014
Beauty in repairability
The hunt for networks that best combine efficiency with repairability, to avoid breakdown, leads to structural designs that resemble snowflakes.

Network theory3 Oct 2014
Snowflakes don't break
Snowflake-shaped networks, with redundant arms that come into use when main branches break down, are easiest to fix when disaster strikes.

Fractals20 Feb 2013
Towers of strength
The Eiffel tower is now a longstanding example of hierarchical design due to its non-trivial internal structure spanning many length scales.